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Columbia And Will Smith's Company Risking A RISK Movie?!
Merrick here...
Columbia Pictures & Overbrook Entertainment (Will Smith's company) are developing a movie based on the RISK game.
Columbia's Doug...
...Belgrad pointed to the success of movies from toys Transformers and G.I. Joe (but not to the dismal movie from the board game Clue) to claim audiences have "shown a great desire for films that bring to life everything that has made these franchise properties stand the test of time. The strategic thinking and the tactical gambles that players must take in the game are what make RISK a classic, thoroughly engaging game. Those elements translated into an action-packed, thrilling story are what will make this a uniquely exciting movie.”
...conveys Nikki Finke HERE.
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at least it has characters in it!
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...it's just going to be a giant war movie?
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...I challenge any one of you STAR TREK watching nerds.
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...Finke mentions it to prove a point (that board game adaptions can easily be flops) but a) Clue has a solid post-theatrical run, and it's got a decent following and b) it also kinda shows that this whole "adapting games and toys" thing is older than we'd (and Nikki) would like to admit... by bringing it up, Nikki actually weakens her claim this is somehow a new trend.
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I come from Ukraine. Ukraine is game to you!? How about I take your little board and SMASH it!
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Nov 05, 2009 12:24:40 PM CST
HEY WILL DIDNT SEE YOU WATCHING THE PHILLIES LOSE
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT MATSUI MR SMITH?
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Funny too.
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but it would miss the presence of vincent price
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as well as a built in story line, i.e. good guys fighting the bad guys. What the hell would RISK be about? four or five kids (or adults) playing in their basement and getting sucked into the game like Jumanji? And then what? They fight a Napoleonic war with die rolls? Fucking stupid.
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...those two armies aren't much, but they add up.
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I do believe that it has quite a cult following, actually!
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Smith is a friend of mine and wanted me to submit a draft, but now that Star trek 2 is almost finished the script stage, i've decided to turn down or hand off alot of projects and focus all of my attention onto Batman 3, which is through pitch ideas and we'll start writing the script in the next 5-6 weeks. probabaly have the first draft finished by early april then take a break and come back for some rewrites before production begins in FEb 2011. C-no, J-no david and myself are really planning on topping what we gave to you in The dark knight. Sets are already being built (the batcave and wayne mannor are getting big makeovers) and the batmobile is jaw droppingly gamechanging
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When there is no more room in timeout, the dead will walk the playground.And this time, its personal.Directed by Uwe Boll. Executive produced by Sesame Street.
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I think that's no-prize #2 for you. Impressive. Very impressive...
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Where execs tries to make a film based on a toy based on a book based on a film based on a true story.
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but Risk is one of the greatest board games of all time!
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I can't take Risk seriously after hearing Arnold J. Rimmer's account of a game.
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... Clue is a top film. End of.
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it's the game of moral dilemmas!
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not sure why I would see a movie about it!
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Strange to me that it has such a negative reputation.
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Too many of my friends in college fucking LOVED this game and I was forced to play way too many times. Geopolitical geeks are the FUCKING WORST!
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You get ten "cool points"!
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a box office bust but numbers only matter to studio heads.
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I know it wasn't a box office smash, but it's right up there with Holy Grail, Caddyshack and Half Baked as far as movies I can watch over and over and over again and still laugh my ass off. That said, I'm not expecting much from "RISK - SIAM I AM: GATEWAY TO AUSTRALIA"
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a documentary featuring four 5-star Generals playing risk than this sure to be hunk of garbage.
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...THE BOX.
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Nov 05, 2009 12:59:12 PM CST
Ummm Clue is actually the only one of those movies worth remembe
by mattdegroot
What an idiot.
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Is alot better,and just as long.
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RISK: THE BATTLE FOR KAMKATCHA made me crack up, thank you for that!
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Because why would Belgrad point to a 24-year-old movie along with Transformers and GI Joe to cite current audience preferences and trends? Wow can't imagine why he didn't go back 24 years to talk about what audiences want to see today.
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Doug or Nikki Finke? They need to defend their position!
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Your post gave me a stroke. I can't see out of my left eye now. Brava.
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I've had moral dilemas concerning the Box but they had nothing to do with the movie.
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"The strategic thinking and the tactical gambles that players must take in the game are what make JENGA a classic, thoroughly engaging game. Those elements translated into an action-packed, thrilling story are what will make this a uniquely exciting movie.”
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and hold out for "UNO" the movie.
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...they let me flip my popcorn over in a sudden burst of rage everytime the smart-ass writer sneaks the word 'Risk' into the dialog.
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something surreal taking place in a netherworld where players or "keepers" are charged with moving blocks (containing souls) while maintaining the balance of humanity.
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Followed by the sequel, Ker-Plunk 2: The Ker-Plunkening.
Hey, JettL93, is Smith gonna star in this too? Be sure the writers include a scene where he gets to say, "Aw, HELL nawww!" Because we, the American moviegoing audience, never tire of that. -
get it? I love to be so funny
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Clue was a far better movie than Transformers or GI Joe. It used the IP and created a fun story out of it, instead of ass raping everyone's memories just to earn a buck from the "ooo pretty explosions" crowd.
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It could be done like "Joe's Apartment." Could be fun. heh...
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This says a lot about the sad state of affairs in Hollywood. They have to turn to fucking board games for script ideas. There are PLENTY of original ideas out there, and not-so-original ones that are ready to be developed. Instead, the studio suits more and more frequently turn to what they call "pre-sold concepts" that they hope will have a built-in audience. Guess what? You fuckheads need to realize that a pre-sold concept is not necessarily a good one. Making board games into movies is probably one of the biggest signs of the creative desperation that plagues filmmaking these days.
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Yes, RISK will be popular and successful because they are JUST LIKE Transformers and GI JOE! Fucking morons. I'm getting reeeeaaaal sick and tired of producers and studio execs spewing the same bullshit everytime they announce they're making a movie out of some property, about how its "unique" and "action-packed" and "exciting". Idiots, all of them.
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Anyone who says otherwise can't be trusted.
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Get it?!Hello?
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Peter Berg was on a Bill Simmons podcast about two months ago saying he was talking about Will Smith either for Risk or Battleship. So I'm assuming he is attached to direct. Simmons was asking about Hancock 2, and Berg suggested they would do this first.
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Nov 05, 2009 1:37:41 PM CST
Give me an afternoon and a comp and I could pump out this script
by ravenloff
I played sooooo much Risk both growing up and later while on deployments in the military. There's any number of ways you can go with this. My favorite would be some sort of global treaty where combat between nations is done in the Risk setting.
At the very least, there needs to be a point in which Will's character is looking at the board (or in it and looking around himself) trying to hold eastern Europe but surrounded by other-colored armies...and saying "awww hell naw" lol
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Atlanta suburb, Night. A family plays Risk. The father (Will Smith) is high on crystal meth. After a tense game, he loses and goes apeshit, kills all the family with only a pair of dice and pokes military units in the baby eyes. Next morning, he freaks out and decides to repent in the path of God. After a stop at the church he drives to the Hasbro headquarter to avenge the death of his family. Think of it as Silence of the Lambs meet The Matrix. SONY LIKES VERY MUCH IDEA
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Nov 05, 2009 1:38:46 PM CST
Good choice, Will. It's manly, and not gay at all, right Will?
by azultool
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True story. Once in Risk I held Mongolia with just a single army against a formidable 30 army invasion force that was hoping to sweep Asia. Three dice versus one and yet the attacking army was whittled away to nothing. His tears soaked the board.
'Mongolia Man' has since entered legend. That piece has been preserved upon the altar of the dojo and all bow to it as they approach. -
FUCKING EPIC NONSTOP BATTLE ACTION! TO WAR! TO WAR! TO WAAAAAAAAR! SPEARS SHALL BE SHAKEN! SHIELDS SHALL BE SPLINTERED! A sword day... a RED day... ERE THE SUN RISES! DEATH! DEATH! DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH!!!!! *cue the BAYSPLOSIONS*
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I always preferred Axis and Allies (with altered home rules including pulp cliches as weapons [lightning guns and the like]) to Risk. Risk just caused stress between tenuous friendships. Nothing was more disheartening than watching an acquaintance storm through sweet, sweet Quebec.
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Afraid to do anything original. How did you get into such a seat of power when you have no fucking balls?
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The script for the movie...
"One off each. One off each. One off each. TWO OFF YOU!!!" -
. . . Pearl Harbour trying to explain why the only way they can cross the Pacific is by using the Bering Straight.
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Smith likes working with him and they wanted to work together on another franchise movie, preferable based on a game/book/videogame
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I wanna see a Connect Four movie. That would be awesome.
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...footage with a funny voice-over...maybe combine war movie cliches with actual atrocities...THE FEEL GOOD MOVIE OF THE SUMMER! "HARRY KNOWLES SAYS "...THIS MOVIE GAVE MY INNER NINE YEAR OLD HIS FIRST FULL ERECTION!"
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Nov 05, 2009 2:03:30 PM CST
Oh... god... those little roman numeral shaped markers...
by harrycalder
...THEY HAUNT MY DREAMS! Who do I have to blow to make sure this movie never gets made?
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Clue is one of the best ensemble comedies ever made!!!!
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Nov 05, 2009 2:07:25 PM CST
The more I think about it, the more I think there is no way...
by royston lodge
...Risk can make sense as a movie.
"COMING THIS CHRISTMAS, WATCH AS SOUTH AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA BATTLE FOR TOTAL DOMINATION OF THE PLANET!" -
They must have some decent script lying around in the vaults that deals with the Napoleonic Wars. Why not just slap the Risk title on it since that's all they're really getting from the license anyway.
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The can make it into a tron type movie. Partially kidding, but definitely bored @ school as I type this.
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on here. All of the board game jokes are old and sounding redundant. I'm starting to think this board game adaptation announcement trend is to keep certain people in the limelight. Is this all PR?
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Will be "Risk II: Castle Risk" This will be the equivalent of Aliens vs. Alien since some will argue (me included) that Castle Risk was a WAYYYYY better game than RISK.
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movies will be based on household products, like "Mr. Clean" or "Windex." Then, it will just be random items in the room like "Lamp" or "Half a Ham Sandwich."
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Aw, Hell naw orange ball, you did not just gnop your nappy ass over here!
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Clue is one of the most quotable, madcap funny movies I've ever seen. Absolutely fantastic cast; sharp, smart script; hell, even the art direction is great. You don't like Clue, you don't like comedy. Period.
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It's about a group of juvenile construction workers who cant get there shit together.
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...Dark Towers. Picked it up at a garage sale several years back, mint, works perfect. We have an excellent drinking version that's always fun around the holidays!
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http://www.superherohype.com/news.php?id=8812
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Nov 05, 2009 2:17:59 PM CST
...a movie about that fast talking fat guy with the tiny...
by flickapoo
...cars?Goldmine.
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Risk should be set entirely in the military headquarters of each warring nation eg the Pentagon. Sure, this means we wouldn't get to witness any actual warfare but if they're serious about adapting the game, it's all about how the player adapts to moves, strategises and how much of a risk he or she is willing to take...that should be portrayed by the leaders of each country, showing their decision-making processes and reactions to events.
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Each film is from a single region's perspective. Australia win's in the end cuz that is the cheapo's stronghold
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don't rag on it, it's so much fun
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that Battleship movie they're going to do.
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"I'm going home to have sex with my wife" - I dare the writers of Risk to come up with a better ending line.
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...IS is a great place to sit and drink beer while your friends slowly stop being friends anymore...then casually take Asia after the bloodbath.It only works once or twice before everyone catches on though...
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About as good an idea as Cheerios: The Motion Picture.
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starring Reginald Veljohnson as the grumpy, yet lovable mailman, Lou?
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It's called Lost.
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Nov 05, 2009 2:34:00 PM CST
If the film is an extended Seinfeld episode i'd watch it
by george newman
that Newman/Kramer game was epic
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Nov 05, 2009 2:34:24 PM CST
and yea, hating on Clue should not be tolerated
by jackknifed_juggernaut
under any circumstances. The Curry fucking owned.
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'Tis all.
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GI JOE and TRANSFORMERS were TV series with recognizable characters and plots, and that's what they made into movies. RISK is about rolling dice and using cards. Will the second-act twist be that "I've got three cannon cards!"???
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...sexually frustrated and incompetent rich boys sending real soldiers to their deaths and trashing entire countries because their daddies bought them this awesome world domination game to play with until the game gets too complicated and frustrating so they all just go back home to Crawford and... Fuck, I just depressed the hell out of myself.
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Nov 05, 2009 2:42:26 PM CST
I want the actual Ukrainian PM to star. She's fucking hot!
by yackbacker
And she takes her hairstyle from Princess Leia! http://tinyurl.com/yjbtgnh
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Someone like Nic Cage will be looking at Will Smith from across a highly sophisticated, electronic, war-room style map of the world and he'll say:"Alaska...to Kamchatka."Will Smith:"So, you just had to make your move for Asia, didn't ya? You just had to be all that! OK then. It is most definitely on."
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If there is anything that even has the remote possibility of being better off left to the imagination, Hollywood will jump in and visualize it.
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...big red arrows showing the direction of the advancing little soldiers and canons.It's gonna be great!
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"TOO LATE!"
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...THE MOVIE would make a great double feature.BOOM!
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...this movie will have a good plot and design, but keep failing because of bad luck, and then I'll get sick of it and walk out about two hours in?
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Make it happen Hollwood douches.
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It's not a classic of cinema, but it was a fine hungover saturday afternoon film.
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will it be in 3D?
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Like Battle Royale, but with Mii's. Awesome.
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...it has to be LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE.
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I personally think he'd be better as China, but who knows?
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Two kids plays with a magical Risk board game that blablablba... divorced parent must bound together to blablbal kids are saved and evil Australians infantry units goes back into the box.
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...the better movie than GI Joe. Joe was a flaming piece of shit that I warned everyone I knew to never waste their time on.
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someone had to say it...
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Make it NC-17..and that Fucker would be bad ass GOLD!
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Risk the movie!? Really Hollywood?
Whats next! Twister The Motion Picture!?(Twister the game with the mats not that shitty movie about the tornado) -
Nov 05, 2009 3:24:47 PM CST
Spoiler - USA will win total war destruction ownage of all your
by failedactress
Before Will finishes his cigar.
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I am not trolling, nor joking, nor polemicizing, to coin a verb form. Honestly, I don't understand how you make a RISK game. Barbie the movie, Clue the movie, these make sense, they are adaptible, however loosely.But turning Battleship into a movie just means making a fucking naval war film, which has been done a million times already, so how is it actually going to have anything to do with the board game? Why bother paying the licensing fees?
The same goes for RISK. Nothing specific ever actually happens in the game, it's simply a world war. So why wouldn't you avoid having to pay the game-makers all kinds of royalties and just make a movie called WORLD WAR THREE???Seriously, somebody explain this to me, because it doesn't make any fucking sense. -
Great movie, funny and surprisingly surprising.
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How can you make a sandbox game into a movie? They are already like movies anyway and It would be a long ass movie too. Hollywood has already shit on some of my favorite games so lets just leave GTA outt of it
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"Oh yes Siam!"
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It's like the cookies. Put whatever you want inside the package, as long you can get the picture of Miley Cyrus on it you will sell.
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...each in our own special ways.
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I want to do it. How much for the rights Harry?
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Redefines the word EPIC.
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... Clint Howard!
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...like that in the beginning of SCROOGED?Boy! did that suck...now I have to kill...ALL OF YOU.
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As is anything with Tim Curry.
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Nov 05, 2009 3:44:55 PM CST
...I should be played my Matt Damon, but it will probably...
by flickapoo
...end up being Chris O'Donnell.Fuck.
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I am on the phone with Joel Silver, how much for the rights Harry?
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bored movie.
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...bring you into a room and open a briefcase...a lurid red light illuminates your face from below and you say..."...my god!...".Fade to black.Cut to next scene...
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CLUE ROCKS! Love that movie! Where the fuck does that guy come off saying that Clue was dismal? Its probably one of the best comedies of the 80's!
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Idiot
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A star packed classic masterpiece. A Santa-Monica successful rapper invites an assortment of guests to come to a formal dinner party, ignoring the ailments of her wife. From the time of the invitations to the actual dinner party, vignettes tell the story of the invited individuals, including a forgotten stage star, fading matinee idol, and the battling Blitzburg couple including a brassy blond engaged to a millionaire. After dinner they gather around the pool, sipping fancy cocktails, when suddenly their host confess an unsettling secret.
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my head just exploded. because Transformers made a ton of money, that means anything kids got for christmas would make a good movie? Ok, anyone remember DARK TOWER? directed by Peter Jackson. or Lite Brite by Stephen Speilberg in 3d Imax, Operation(dont touch the sides!) starring Jack Nicholson, etc....
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A story about 5 couples and how they cope with the problem of premature ejaculation. Guaranteed photoreal.
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2 hours of random object flying in your face. You know you want it.
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It was a better movie than GIJoe and Transformers.
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Come on. We'd all pay to go see that. "I'm jacking this car, prick, and if you don't like it I'll shoot you in the face with this mini-gun I happen to have tucked away."
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In my minority opinion.
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I guess it'll have to be Alessandra Ambrosio then. Damn.
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10 years ago? Where the fuck was I? Was it the same dog? Did Belushi's character get married? Did the dog? Anybody?
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Why do a Risk movie when there is so much more money in Pokemon? I say Shia Labeouf for Pikachu.
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I can't believe nobody's posted this one before.
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until it turned into seaQuest at the end. Ugh. And Cobra Commander was so shitty.
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since the safest continent to start out in was Australia since it had only 2 pathways into it so you just concentrate all your defense on those areas and no one is getting in.
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http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh8ttX9L0a1MwB3RbL
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because you'd be at the center of a gangbang.
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Since at least there's characters and stories and plotlines that are easily adaptable into a movie.
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C'mon, you KNOW you want to see old-woman-on-old-woman action. This would be chock full.
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The film might make a wee bit of money, but it'll more likely blow up as a dud in Will Smith's face. "GI Joe" and "Transformers" are better known, more marketable, and very appealing to kids, whereas "Risk" isn't.
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A band of afro-americans are pitted against a group of Navajo's in a strange grid-like vessel run by the evil Mr. Big (Jackman). Only their cunning and forsight can ensure they make it out alive. Go for it! Connect Four! Summer '11
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Someone has to go around finding the UNO card or they get killed.
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If turning old board games into movies is going to be the next big trend, I'd like to see Hungry Hungry Hippos or Mousetrap get turned into completely ridiculous acid trip movies. I liked them both as a kid but now the only way they're fun is to play them when I'm completely trashed so I think it'd be appropriate.
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This may not be the greatest idea in world, but at least the game tie-in is easy.
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That kind of goes without saying. Get with the game, man!
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Or Cokey. He likes 70's projectiles.
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Starring Joe Pesci
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Otherwise known as Eyes Wide Shut.
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http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh8ttX9L0a1MwB3RbL
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And clue is awesome.
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'sall I got
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Starring Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Scarlett Johannson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Kate Winslet all in lingerie sliding down into the camera.
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That's fan made shit.
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First "Battle Ship" (Peter Berg to Direct and then not to direct), Then "Monopoly" (Ridley Scott what are you thinking?) and now Risk? Joe and Transformers are classic and have a narrative to them already built in, these are games that change every time you play them. At least they were honest in basically saying that they were trying to capitalize on GI Joe Formers craze. But I'd rather see the thundercats film, or He man than this or any board game film. Hell even a good version of Dungeons and Dragons. However, little known Overbrook Films sort of gem is Jada Pinkett Smith's "The Human Contract". It was pretty good for a direct to dvd film. Paz Vega looks hot as hell in it. And Speaking of Peter Berg, he's off "Dune" which Big Willy should grab the rights to or any other actual piece of intellectual property such as books or plays rather than "Risk". As Stan Lee would say, "'Nuff said."
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Lord of the Rings RISK: The Movie
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DJ Jazzy Jeff? Friends with Will Smith and they have the same writing style....shitty.
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Fuck that. Clue was great. Hack writer.
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Nov 05, 2009 7:52:55 PM CST
i used to play on a strategy wargame Hyrulian War
by takingscorpioscalls
set in the Zelda universe about 5 years ago it was the shizzzzzz. message board based but you could pretty much do anything. i was gerudo leader most of the time.
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In Mpls we had a call in Scrabble show on cable access, which was awesome. Many drunk kids trying to spell. The show teased a call in Risk game, at the time I thought it would be awesome.
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He thought you had the five of spades. Now he's trapped into taking a card that he doesn't understand, in a world where cards are arranged circularly.
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So, will the audience initially start watching the movie and then eventually become kinda bored waiting for their turn and then become frustrated that the red character is attacking green too much, and godddamn it why don't you attack blue you assmucher? He was totally wide open in Africa. No alliances, asshole. Mom!! Jimmy won't give me the dice. Godddamnit, Why do you get 15 armies when I only got 12? I quit this stupid fucking game.
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Nov 05, 2009 8:57:50 PM CST
Studios would rather adapt Risk than actually take one
by iforgotabout19
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
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RIDE FOR RUIN! AND THE WORLD'S ENDING! DEATH! DEATH! DEAAAAAAATH!!!! . . . (The only proper way a RISK movie can be made with any class).
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Nov 05, 2009 9:19:30 PM CST
To live to its potential, it must be the most epic war movie EVE
by d.vader
If it isn't, then its a failure. And the only way to be the most epic war movie EVER is to be rated R. And I don't see that happening, folks.
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Nov 05, 2009 9:39:45 PM CST
man, stop with the fucking board game movies already...
by the_crimson_king
Jesus Christ, what's wrong with Hollywood? and Clue is a great movie (I particularly love Colleen Camp's tits in it), fuck all these other board game movies
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...I'm never watching a movie again.
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but they haven't ever made a movie based on any of Neal Stephenson's books, to quote the Angry Video Game Nerd "what an assload of fuck"
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fixed, no idea what the fuck happened to my post title
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Good name, by the way.
You wrote "That kind of goes without saying," referring to my comment about this being a bad idea for a film.
Well, thank you for the vote of support. But I would disagree that "it goes without saying." Smith's company probably bought the rights to develop the Risk property for at least a couple hundred thousand dollars, so that's not "without saying." This happens all the time in development companies until someone says "This is a bad idea." My opinion means shit to such companies, obviously, but I'm hoping that someone whose opinion matters says something like this to Will. And he listens.
We'll see.
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Seriously, why don't movie studios put out an open call for anyone and everyone with an idea or script for a movie to mail that shit in because they're officially out of ideas? Because I've been dying to write a script about a time-traveling, flaming homosexual marmoset detective that journeys through Earth's history to battle trans-dimensional cannibal mimes - who are also werewolves - with an insidious plot to collect all the greatest serial killers, mass murderers, and ruthless dictators ever born and sell them to the psychic squid-people of Mphlmphnzyxtlb as generals in their conquest of the galaxy through song and dance numbers.
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I've been wondering what it would take for me to finally just outright LAUGH at the idea for a movie. There you have it.
Risk: The Movie + Will Smith = LULZ4DAYZ
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Made money. Something original (though I didn't enjoy it) made a ton of money, and still they think the key to success is brand-name recognition. Or in this case, copying someone else. "Transformers was based off a toy and it made money?! RISK is based off a toy... a game, but a toy nontheless... It shall make money too!" Idiots. This is why they'll make a Paranormal Activity sequel too, as opposed to greenlighting original ideas.
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of web sites got together and linked to some ON DEMAND page and basically told people they had to see the movie. It's like the Snakes on a Plane shit to a new level.
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Wasn't studio made and thus was produced differently and marketed differently. You try the same thing with a RISK or a BATTLESHIP and it won't happen.
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Didn't the studio change the ending? I know it sat on a shelf somewhere for 2 years.
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I think PA was made outside the studio and bought later (like Clerks). I don't think it's uncommon for a studio to retool a film they have bought either.
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Now, THAT'S what I call a close encounter...
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People DO like Will Smith.
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It was studio BOUGHT. That's the difference. Its a completely independent movie, and once it was bought, the studios planned to REMAKE it (like they do EVERYTHING, bc they think throwing more money at something, and putting more stars in it, is the key to success- again, this is why they are idiots), but some smarter folks (Spielberg perhaps) convinced them that the movie was good enough to stand on its own, but with perhaps a tweaked ending. Its still wholly independent. There's no way a studio would have made this kind of film. That's why they're shocked it made money. And that's why they're already planning a sequel and, undoubtedly, a slew of films that copy the same idea.
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Will Smith as Tay Zonday
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It's called Jackass.
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BANG!!!! "CLUE" kicked ass! A "RISK" movie will suck, especially if Mr "Aw heyull naw" is involved. Guy hasn't made a good movie in years.
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Starring Kevin James and Rosie O'Donnell. Make it so, Hollywood.
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"Sir, the family dog just won again!"
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its an easy to defend continent. Asia on the other hand is a bitch to hold onto.
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It was really a modification on Capture-The-Flag. All the kids in the camp were divided into two teams. Then each kid was given a slip of paper that told them which Stratego piece they were. The "pieces" were distributed proportionally, similar to the board game. You could only tag another player (thus sending them to the "prison"/timeout-area) if you outranked them. If you were a bomb, you outranked everybody except for minesweepers. If you were a minesweeper you could only take out bombs.
Instead of each side having one flag, each side started with about 25 wooden chips, about 2" diameter, which were kept at the team's "base". If you made it to the other team's base without being tagged you got to take one of their chips back to your team's base. The team with the most chips after an hour or so would be declared the winner.
It was a friggin' great way to play capture-the-flag, especially when we played it in the woods at night, commando-style!
I have no idea why I was compelled to share all that with y'all... -
Where color-centric fascist warlords consign an entire generation of young men and women + hundreds of millions of innocent civilians to death in their unstoppable quest for global domination. I love Risk (and Lux more), but it's got kind of a dark subtext don't it?
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Take Australia early and fortify with continent bonuses. Then lay the pipe to Asia and it is game, set and match.
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If the movie resorts to cheesy modern plastic pieces instead of the original wood, I'm not buying a ticket.
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Jane Wiedlin.....mmmmmmmmmmm She was always the hottest Go-Go in my book. Hell, she's still pistol hot today in her 50's.
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Oh wait, they already did that concept with "The Day After Tomorrow." heh... never mind.
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Will he be a dream... (Brad Pitt/Hugh Jackman/Matthew McConaughey?) ...or a dud? (David Cross/David Spade/Jack Black?)
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Well, I think we've covered just about everything else. Though come to think of it, I could actually see an animated ROCK'EM SOCK'EM ROBOTS movie working if it were done right.
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BIG DEAL!!!! Google it. Hilarious.
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I mean, with the renaissance in movie musicals, it really seems like a no-brainer.
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I'm pretty sure it was at the very least a disappointment box-office wise and critically an absolute failure. "Transformers" is so far the only real toy franchise that's taken off.
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I'm pretty sure it was at the very least a disappointment box-office wise and critically an absolute failure. "Transformers" is so far the only real toy franchise that's taken off.
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Multiple endings FTW.
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Great episode.
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